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Hoping for a May BFP?

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curiousgeorgie · 01/04/2012 10:37

Had a search for a may BFP thread and couldn't see one (please correct me if there is!) so thought I'd start one..

curiousgeorgie - TTC #2 - Testing April 29th

Anyone with me?

OP posts:
StephieFranks · 20/04/2012 14:57

Well Sticklebricksuk being the kinda gal i am i have a thermometer already!! Did it for three days early on in my cycle then i had a mamouth rise, to which my face must have dropped in sheer confusion and wtf - to later have DH tell me he thought i was going over the top and putting too much pressure on myself hence i ditched temping till a couple of days. Even though its CD 20 temp went down today?? I will persevere this time though.

Winkle I've only bought ebay cheapie OV sticks, i am considering buying a CBFM do you think it's worth it or just go for Clearblue Digis?

morecoffeemorecoffee · 20/04/2012 15:09

We have had a few days off dtd, we were both exhausted! Hope we've not missed the window! Had a slight dull ache this morning, didn't last long though. I think I am approximately 6 days post possible ovulation. could it have been implantation pain? I know, shouldn't symptom spot!

winkle2 · 20/04/2012 16:32

Stephie - the CB digis work for me so I recommend them. I would love the CBFM but we really can't afford it and I didn't like the idea of buying a second hand one on ebay. I think it depends on what you can afford.

RightUpMyRue · 20/04/2012 18:01

Hello lovelies Smile

Not posted for a while(have been lurking) coz there's nowt interesting going on here, on CD3 or 4, still bleeding. Have been temping this cycle....erm...nothing else to tell.

Hope you're all SWI and winkling Grin

CraftyGirly · 20/04/2012 18:12

Argh just wrote a mammoth post and stupid phone lost it Angry

stephie my temps first cycle off pill were all over the place, still not sure if I ovd or not!

winkle - over in minutes, how romantic Grin it all adds up though I suppose Wink

Might start buying shares in the piss stick companies, since we're all literally peeing our £££ away it would be nice to see a return Grin or a baby for that matter Wink

tedmundo · 20/04/2012 19:03

Hello scubastevie .. There are a fair few of us testing in the middle of next month. This thread is going to be super active at that time!

LOL at the amount of hassle we have to go through to get knocked up around here.... Loving the smarties and marshmallows theory. Much more up my ruerue than grapefruit!

DH trying to act all worn out and put upon with the amount of dtd going on but I can see right through him. He's having a McDonalds moment really .... he's lovin' it!!

Still no sign of a positive on the opks but just going for EOD anyway. We managed to DTD last night in a quickie way ... Didn't do any legs in air action though so just banking on plain old biology to get it up there.

Going back to the topic of looking preggers, because I only had the miscarriage back in March when I was 11 weeks, I was already carrying some more weight from the morning sickness munchies. I have utterly failed to lose that .. And can't be arsed to when hope hope hope to be preggers again soon ... And have def noticed a few pointed looks at the tummy region.

wishfulthinking1 · 20/04/2012 19:57

Hi all-
Sorry I've not posted much- very boring waiting over here. Im on CD7 at the mo- think we'll try dtd eod from tomorrow. Not sure what dp will make of the shag-fest! We're getting married in June- we were always going to start trying after we got hitched but last month decided to stop using protection and see what happened- and if we're 2 months preggo when we say 'i do' then hooray!

He's being all cool about it- thinks the serious trying will start when we're married, but now it's all I can think about!!!

Would someone mind adding me to the list?
Wishfulthinking- ttc #1- testing may 14th!!

Thank you!!
P.s I've really been impressed with everyone's efforts- keep it up!!! X

scubastevie · 20/04/2012 20:00

Thanks for the welcome all :)
tedmundo it will be bonkers but exciting to see if anyone has been successful. [can tell I'm a newbie]
3 weeks today, time goes so slow!!
What are opks?! Should I be doing this?! I tried to temp chart before, but I think I had a crap thermometer as it was all over the place and didn't rise when I got 'the mucus' (what acronym is this?!)
Lots of legs up in the air for me :o

morecoffeemorecoffee · 20/04/2012 20:28

Hi rue and wishful not much going on here either. Been lurking, but not much of interest to post.

Think I will try the marshmallow and smarties theory!

scuba 'the mucus' = ewcm
'legs in the air' = the winkle
Grin

LittleMissSnowShine · 20/04/2012 22:31

hello scuba! (PS - OPKs - ovulation prediction kits)

and everyone else :)

so sorry ladies, i'm in rant mode this month - first of all that woman asking me if i was preg the other day when i'm not and then (wait til u hear this!) ...at half 5 yesterday i got an email about a job i had applied for months ago and completely forgotten about / written off when i hadn't heard anything further. the email was asking me to come to an interview that required a lot of very intensive prep for since this is a real high end, highly pressured, very competitive post, at the other end of the country next week. i was all like oohh, err, dunno, talked it over with DH, we decided that even though I was a bit in two minds i should go for it and we even HORRORS half debated briefly whether i should maybe take morning after pill since with this going on, a possible long distance relocation for us and DS and potentially a new stressful job for me etc, then maybe this wouldn't be the best time to find out that it had worked this month and i was preg. But then decided against. Phew.

Because, today I emailed and confirmed that I would attend but I would very much appreciate if they could email me my original application form since some time had passed since I applied and I wasn't 100% sure if the draft version I had saved on my laptop was the right version. the lady replied attaching aforementioned form. only problem was, when i opened it, it wasn't my form!!! so i had a whole load of someone else's confidential data, someone else with a name very like mine. i phoned them and it turned out that it was supposed to be the other girl getting the interview. gutted!! in fairness i don't really mind that much, while the job would have been cool i'm happy where i am and things are good, tho of course it's a bit embarassing cos i'd told a couple of friends and we'd mentioned it to our families who were going to have to pitch in to help look after DS when I was away at the interview next week. but it's the nearly taking the morning after pill conversation that absolutely astounds and appalls me the most. i know they could never have known that, and i only half considered it for a few minutes, and that particular detail is not their fault but oh my god, just horrendous!

wishful - wedding in june, amazing! this june is our third wedding anniversary, lovely time of the year to be married and have your anniversary :)

ted - people should keep their eyes to themselves! obese is one thing, perfectly in proportion everywhere else with a slightly dodgy tummy area is perfectly normal for women who have been thru pregnancy, even early stage pregnancy, in the last 2 years. and, like u, hope hope hope to be preg again soon so beyond zumba and trying to eat pretty healthy not likely to be doing much about it any time soon Hmm

morecoffee - i'm on CD 17 and i don't think, judging by CM, i've OV yet. ho hum. we've missed a couple of nights of DTD but get back to it tonight so don't think i've really missed the window phew!

winkle - choo choo, all aboard the perfunctory but functional train ha ha, as long as it gets you there Grin

winkle2 · 20/04/2012 23:03

Aw sorry to hear about the job snowshine :(

LittleMissSnowShine · 20/04/2012 23:28

Ah well, it was an oxbridge job and it would hav sounded v cool...but stressy!!

wishfulthinking1 · 21/04/2012 07:27

Sorry about the job snowshine- I'm glad your happy where you are though.

So, I have a question- kept me awake last night! As its our first month of trying I've not been monitoring cycles before, but I had jotted down in my diary when my period had started. I've downloaded a 'period diary' app and put it all the past details and although it was erratic to begin with ( I had just come off the pill) my cycle average is 28 days and this months AF arrived on time. My period sort of started in an evening - I wiped and it was a bit pinky (TMI!!) but I didn't use anything until the next morning because nothing really happens on the first night IYSWIM. Anyway, I put the next day as CD1 as it was the first day that AF really started properly, but should I put the day before as that's when I had the big of spotting (albeit only a little, only noticeable when I wiped).

If I should have put the day before, then I'm a day behind on my CD so I'm really CD9 and oh had to go away this morning, not back till tomorrow so we won't get to dtd till CD10 and then what if I OV earlier than most people? I'll have missed the boat this month. :-(

And to top it off I'm now convincing myself that I'm having OV pain (which is something I didn't even know you could get before I read this board!) so, pooh to it all! How long after you get the OV pain is it until you actually OV?

Sorry girls- I sound like such a nutter!

Feel free to ignore my waffle-rant- but would like to know when you'd put cd1 if you're period sort of comes in the night like mine?
Hope you all have a good weekend-
Winkle- have a well earned rest!
Scubastevie- I haven't charged or anything either- think ill give it a go after the wedding if nothing happens before,

X

wishfulthinking1 · 21/04/2012 07:35

*charted, not charge- I imagine that's completely different!! X

wishfulthinking1 · 21/04/2012 08:31

Panic over! DP popped back (for his packed lunch of all things!!) and I managed to have my wicked way ;-) so, whether I'm on CD 7 or 8, whether I'm ovulating or not ive got the bases covered (so to speak!!)

Of course, now that's done anything resembling OV pain has completely gone. Seriously, I hope we get preggers first time round, I don't think I can take this worrying for very long!!

(and I certainly never thought I'd post a shag-update in a public forum!!)

winkle2 · 21/04/2012 10:06

Wishful - TTC drives us bonkers so no worries! You count CD1 as your first full day of flow.

jennifer86 · 21/04/2012 14:05

Hello everyone,

Recognise a few of you from the April thread :) Nice to have some continuity from one month to the next! I'm TTC#1, cycle 5 started 2 days ago. Cycles are around 35 days so will be testing on approximately 24th May. I'm temping, though, so will adjust POAS day depending on when I ovulate.

Just realised this morning that if we'd been successful on cycle 1 of TTC then I'd be 20 weeks PG by now. That made me sad, to think where we could be at by now, but it also made me a little bit scared to realise how quickly the last few months have gone, so it's possibly a good thing it didn't happen straight away.

Fx for lots of BFPs this month!

LittleMissSnowShine · 21/04/2012 18:16

@wishful - i was exactly the same this month, i've kept a note roughly over last three months of when AF showed up tho i only started ttc last month. this month i didn't know when to count as my first day of AF but i read somewhere that it's first day of proper, red blood that counts as CD1. and nice work ambushing OH into some surprise packed lunch sexy time lol

@jennifer - hello again and welcome, sorry april bfp didn't work out but hopefully cycle 5 will be lucky for you (and for us all!)

I kind of wish i had been temping this month - i sort of started and then my results seemed all over the place and i kept forgetting to do it before i got up so i just gave up, but now i've no idea if i've OV yet. i don't think i have yet, CM isn't really EWCM and my last cycle was around 40 flipping days long, tho it's usually more like 30 days so it's hard to predict. anyway on CD18 now, but think OV on around CD20 last cycle so best keep DTD for another week or so anyway!! OH out to watch football tonight so once DS goes to bed i hav big plans involving pink flannel pyjamas, a bath, trashy magazine and Mr Tom Jones on The Voice heh

Baby making on hold til tomorrow Grin

Tho I started reading this thread and now I'm wondering if I'm half wise...ah, memories....

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childbirth/1452821-Positive-and-Empowering-Stories-of-How-You-Coped-in-Labour-no-matter-how-it-all-ended-up

scubastevie · 21/04/2012 18:17

littlemiss that is so rubbish about the job, v unprofessional esp as you say it's high end. It doesn't bear thinking about if you'd decided to take MA pill :(

Oh I see about the OPKs...think I'll be ok, get the ewcm quite obviously Blush hopefully this will be enough.

wishful from what I've read, day 1 is always the first day of any kind of spotting, brown etc, not the full flow day, and this is apparently a common mistake to make and thus miss the correct ovulation day Confused this is what I go by anyway, always then OV on day 14 of 28 day cycle.

I also hope it happens soon, although I keep telling myself it'll be ok if it takes a few months, as we'll have longer to save, get fitter and baby would be born later in the year, decreasing the chance that if it came early would be Christmas baby!
Isn't it funny how you can try so hard, when so many people accidentally able to get pg Hmm

scubastevie · 21/04/2012 18:42

Shit!! Just been to look up the spotting thing, and it does say that day 1 is full flow. Well bugger. This totally contradicts what my book says Angry This month I had an unusual 'light bit' for 2 days, usually it's just light for a day...so maybe it was actually day 3 that was day 1!
Best bet just keep on DTD I suppose. Sure DH won't mind Hmm

Hai1988 · 21/04/2012 19:32

Hi ladies, havent posted for a while but have been lurking to see how everyones doing.

On cd16 today which according to period tracker is ov day but no sign of ewcm?

Dtd both cd14 and 15 and will try again tonihht. Fx for all this month

wrigle · 21/04/2012 20:37

Hello, just hoping to add myself in here. Think I might be cd10, (MC so unsure, am in the wtf phase) and am hoping to start ttc soon - but OH very busy today, grr. Anyway. If I may add myself! I'm confused about what grapefruit juice does but am relieved it does not have to go up the whoopsie!

will look for the last list and cut n paste. Smile

wrigle · 21/04/2012 20:40

Curiousgeorgie - TTC #2 - Testing 1st May
morecoffee - ttc #3 - testing 1st and 15th may
Too breathless- TTC # 2- Testing 1st May
Dexi - TTC#1 - Testing 1st May
winkle2 - TTC #1 - Testing 2nd May
Hai1988- TTC #2 - Testing 3rd may
Figaro82 - TTC#1 - Testing 4th May
Cejay8 - TTC#2 - Testing 7th May
CraftyGirly - TTC#1 - Testing 7th May
StephieFranks - TTC#1 Testing May 8th ish
Sticklebricksuk TTC#1 - Testing 8 May
Tedmundo - TTC#3 - Testing 8th May
littlemiss - TTC #2 - Testing 9th May
OpenMindedSceptic - TTC#2 - Testing 9th May
Persuasion - TTC #1 - Testing 10th May
scubastevie - TTC #1 Testing 11th May (AF due)
PandaWatch - TTC #1 - Testing 12th May
Geeklette - TTC#1 - Testing 19th May
RightUp - TTC #2 - Testing 19th May
Ribs - TTC#2 - Testing Mid to late May (keeping it vague)
wrigle ttc#1 - testing.. mid May???

LittleMissSnowShine · 21/04/2012 20:57

hi wrigle, welcome and fx for you!

@hai - good to hear from you! we're just a few CDs apart, soooo we should be getting our BFPs pretty close together too, right? right? i'm feeling optimistic! i really feel like a wallow in the bath tonight and the last time i really felt an absolute urge to do that i was 4 weeks preg with DS Grin

@scuba - I know, but the woman responsible for the almighty mix up was in tears over the phone so tbh i'm sure she's in a world of shiz. i just hope they are professional enough to let the other girl know she should have an interview, but tbh it would be just like those kind of people to say nothing so fewer people know about the cock up they made of things. and it was all uncovered only because i asked to see my original application form again, if i hadn't done that i would have turned up next week none the wiser and it would have been pretty awkward lol

Also, you're right, whatever day you count as CD1, best ploy is to just DTD like crazy all around the time you might OV since you don't want to rely on it being a one shot deal Wink

Tho, in saying that, I've just finished watching The Voice and i'm about to hit the bath (having removed most of DS's toys and his crocodile shaped rubber bath mat), soak in my lovely rituals bubble bath and then the pink flannel PJS DH hates so much are going on so no DTD for me tonight ha ha

scubastevie · 21/04/2012 21:31

Ha! Well I have been promised a massage tonight soo...lol have a nice bath!!

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